Too much bloody perspective as Spinal Tap remind us.

I can’t remember if I’d suppressed the bodily fluids and how it is echoed in the Men Going Their Own Way and other misogynistic cults. But the peckerwood christo fascists are absolutely on the money for the here and now. It’s so long since I’ve seen the original that I can’t really compare but I think I laughed more at Steve Coogan’s Doktor than I did Sellars’. Sacrilege I know.

Being there was always my favourite Sellars. Must watch some more Hal Ashby. I loved the films I saw as a teenager.

Dull. The kids wandered out so I turned it off.

The original was sublime, this was tedious.

Well worth a watch. The score by Steve Cooney sounds like it was written last week (bar some musique concréte tropes which are retro cool anyway).
The 2k restoration from a 35mm exhibition print blown up from the original 16mm is grainy in parts but still beautiful.

As a what if, a road not travelled, it’s a tantalising tease in Irish film history. I’m delighted that this will be generally available at last.

Timely and moving film. If your country isn’t there yet, it’s heading there, and many people you know are cheering it on and licking their lips while simultaneously saying that it’s not happening.

Because language means nothing to fascists.

Extra mark for the Saturday night Brazilian crowd clapping and cheering at the end: the Brazilians in Dublin are heavily anti-fascist.